AN OPEN LETTER

Rangiora Gunner, Volume 1, Issue 6, 20 April 1943, Page 5

AN OPEN LETTER

, Dear Sir, •- In reply to yours of recent date, I wish to inform you that we have coming to hand in the near future a supply of mouse traps• •- • " 1 ■•rr.i.i". ‘ X-O-- e. .A: These traps' l have boon in use- in the-jungles of iAschbidllazooch, and have met with' phonominal success* their catch being -43. alligators, 7 cows, 16 sheep, S9-hons and one mouse. -As can bo Soon by this record the traps are really deadly in action* their. total of alligators caught boing really astounding. • - - * . ra-a... a-J-in action they are simple to use* -Bait With’ a large piece of ambergris, the? particular odour of which attracts the lurking game. In a camouflaged position close to the bait is-a gunner Who.koops -up-d- running patter of hilarious jokes and wise clicks'. These-so-amuses the I ’.-- J--rodents that they throw heads »and’ open their mouths, and.. --- simply roar with laughter. The hunter ■ then e immediately rushes -for- ’ ward -and--with a flick of the wrist throws ’.a- fistful of boating’ s ■- Powder into the gaping jaws of tho corpus delicti, This produces a - long lingoring death at the end of which respiratory action ceases and a lachrymatory effect can ba felt in the optics. Trusting that the above record will meet with your approval. .t . „ V 1..-.*'. , I am, etc. Ebenozer J. Snodgrass